Three months ago i bought the core game including HoT for 32€. I played for a month, and paused since then because my friend who wanted to play with me couldnt run it well on his wooden machine. I am a long time WoW player and have tried a lot of other mmorpgs over the last decade. People who play mmorpgs usually dont play them for 3-4 hours a month , a majority of them do play on a very regular daily basis. This means many hundreds of hours of gameplay and having a good time.
Going to the cinema for a 2h movie costs me already a 3rd of the game´s price.
You see where im getting at..
Primarily i am a PvPer and i would even pay 10€ per month for the spvp maps content alone, if i had to. This is what i do in the other mentioned mmo.
I havent logged in HoT yet, but even if there´s not that vast amount of new diverse content as in the coregame, i have absolutely no problem to pay this one time fee once again when the next expansion hits.
The quality of this game is overall amazing, and people (not only in this game) seem to undervalue the work that has been put in high polished games.
Even on the occasion i might never log in again because of missing time or motivation to put effort and work learning gw2 pvp, i would never regret having bought Gw2(HoT) just to support the Devs for creating such a beautiful piece of art (with its flaws of course).
I think its totally fine to say, no im not invested that much (anymore) to buy more of this game and am happy with what i have and can play.
A LOT of people in the current WoW community cry about missing content in the current expansion. While they are right on some bad design decisions, there is a ton of content to do (basegame and newest expansion). The ones that cry loudest are often the ones who havent managed to beat even half of the game.
They just bore themselves and blame it on a game.
The new specializations will only offer more options to the player to build his class, not better, atleast thats the intention.
I just hope Anet is preparing to balance out fairly quickly and in touch with the high end pvp´ers and pve´ers in this community as i want this game to be very successful and be a thing in esports.
But, devs, pleeease tone down the visual spell lightning show, its too much counteracting the good stuff underneath! Thank you